On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 08:48:46PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote: > call for help, > > it would be possible for me to lead lyx layout editor as a small > school project provided that it is work complicated enough. > > i know there are people mastering layouts better than me, so it would > help if you can help to write down some specification of features it > should have. > > by 'complicated enough' i mean it should know more than just provide > database sheet for the attributes described in our customization > manual, since that is trivial to write and won't need more > people/months to code... so its a question whether we can produce such > a feature-list :) > > Helge, iirc you have advertised small java beast some time ago - do > you have some specification? i'm also CC-ing Guenter and Steve as our > layout power users from the second maillist.
No Java please. It should be maintainable by the regular folks here, and even if some are somewhat fluent in Java, most know C++. Python would be the only acceptable alternative, but having a Gui cries for C++. Andre'
